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I Believe In Growing Old With Grace: Oobah Butler On An Obsession With Spencer Krug

Oobah Butler talks about his enduring relationship with the maverick indie musician Spencer Krug, whose new album was released this month

Music Downloads

Pursuit Of Pop: Jo Bevan Interviewed

For Quietus subscribers’ Summer Solstice EP, Desperate Journalist's Jo Bevan goes solo in search of perfect pop, while Oh The Gilt, UKAEA and Ekoplekz provide masterclasses in the art of a killer remix. All of them speak to Patrick Clarke

Subscribers

Reviews

Abronia
Map of Dawn

On this Oregon psychedelic sextet’s latest album, Dustin Krcatovich hears the natural splendour of the Pacific Northwest reflected in sound

Anniversary

Love & Ecstatic Dancing: Soft Cell & Human League Go Long

Four decades ago Human League (as The League Unlimited Orchestra) and Soft Cell revolutionised the art of remixing and cemented the idea of the remix album in the public consciousness, says Ian Wade

Reviews

Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals
King Cobra

A collaboration between rapper Brian Ennals and producer Infinity Knives proves as elusive as it is irresistible, finds Arusa Qureshi

Art

The Waves And After: At The Whitstable Biennale

At the Whitstable Biennale, Will Jennings encounters work by Jennet Thomas, Alicia Radage, Dzifa Benson, and more

Reviews

Hercules & Love Affair
In Amber

Andy Butler and friends return with their most experimental release to date, finds Zara Hedderman

Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Edan’s Beauty And The Beat

On 2005’s Beauty And The Beat, Edan produced the best psychedelic album of the decade, and the most fleshed out fusion of hip hop and psychedelia ever put to wax. Eden Tizard explores what makes it such a cult classic

Low Culture Essay

The Full Ponty: How Satellite City Nailed The Spirit Of The Welsh Valleys

Boyd Clack’s late 90s BBC Wales sitcom might be confined to the grey zone of YouTube fan uploads, but it remains a vital document of the dark humour and grim reality of Valleys life, writes Emma Garland in this month's Low Culture subscriber essay

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Album of the Week

The Way Back: Alison Cotton’s The Portrait You Painted Of Me

Alison Cotton summons the ghosts of coal miners and fishermen on an album of eerie laments, finds Tom Bolton

Reviews

Stan van Dijk
Caustics

Dutch programmer and multi-instrumentalist Stan van Dijk goes way beyond his meagre means on solo debut, *Caustics*, finds Brian Coney

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Mike Paradinas

25 years on from the release of Lunatic Harness, Mike Paradinas provides ten entry points into a vast discography of scattered pseudonyms as he speaks to Miranda Remington

Reviews

Avalanche Kaito
s/t

A meeting between a Burkina Faso-raised urban griot and two Belgian noise rockers yields something greater than the sum of its parts, says Dustin Krcatovich

Reviews

Mary Halvorson
Amaryllis & Belladonna

With one set written for her new sextet and the other Halvorson’s first composition for string quartet, these two recordings mark a high point in the guitarist composer’s discography to date, finds Sean Kitching

Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For June

Noel Gardner salutes summer with another clutch of punk, hardcore, crust, oi etc. releases from around the globe. Home page photo: Axe Rash

A Quietus Interview

Explore/Exploit: Dylan Moon Interviewed

Upon the release of his new album Option Explore, the result of over a thousand hours spent exploring the possibilities of electronic pop, Dylan Moon speaks to Patrick Clarke

Reviews

Osheyack
Intimate Publics

Osheyack’s second album boasts a haptic intensity courtesy of bristling synthetic soundscapes and flinty electronics. Will Ainsley locks in

Film

Removing The Threat: Dog Soldiers At 20

Toxic masculinity could have reigned supreme in Neil Marshall's war horror, but 20 years on it remains a touching character study that can welcome queer audiences, finds Samuel Sims

Art

Tickling In My Head: ASMR At The Design Museum

With a tingle running down the back of his spine, Ilia Rogatchevski explores the world of ASMR at London's Design Museum

Books

A Proper Job: Richard Foster On The Factory Floor

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Flower Factory, Richard Foster recalls the reaction of Dutch workers to tragic events across the Atlantic

Reviews

Sofie Birch
Holotropica

Sofie Birch gives ambient music a new colour with this charming but unconventionally composed record, finds Jakub Knera

Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Valentina Goncharova’s Ocean

It is almost criminal that Valentina Goncharova doesn't have much purchase in the general consciousness; maybe this timely reissue of her Symphony For Electric Violin And Other Instruments in 10+ Parts will change that argues Jakub Knera

Album of the Week

Album Of The Week: Blackhaine – Armour II

Jon Buckland gets to grips with Blackhaine's new album; an audio constellation of symptoms relating to precognitive trauma and terror. Homepage portrait by Timon Benson and Luc Jones

Reviews

Kee Avil
Crease

The debut album from Vicky Mettler balances pop sensibilities and experimental incinations, finds Antonio Poscic

Baker's Dozen

Found In Translation: Gwenno’s Baker’s Dozen

Covering all things psychogeography and domesticity, Gwenno talks Ronnie Angel Pope through the albums that capture the atmosphere of the places and communities that matter to her

Reviews

LE SSERAFIM
Fearless

A daring manifesto bringing together two singers from K-pop group IZ*ONE, Sakura and Chaewon with a surprising new sound

Electronic

Hyperspecific: Dance Music For June Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel

Our electronic music columnist Jaša Bužinel is back with his 25 summer bangers list, plus ten fresh reviews, including releases by Pariah, rRoxymore, Nick Leon & Bitter Babe, Metrist, Slikback and more

Reviews

Yama Warashi
Crispy Moon

Yama Warashi plays with time and space on an album that, for all its diverse influences, is pop through and through, finds Daryl Worthington

A Quietus Interview

Wider Future: An Interview With Osheyack

Shanghai-based producer Eli Osheyack speaks to Alex Rigotti about the fluctuating fortunes of the city's fertile underground electronic scene, and exploring the relationships between artists and community on new album Intimate Publics

Anniversary

Non-Linear: DJ Shadow’s The Private Press At 20

Angus Batey samples, cuts and pastes from archive interviews as he argues that, two decades on, DJ Shadow's second solo album deserves to be acclaimed as a masterpiece

Reviews

Shiva Feshareki
Turning World

Shiva Feshareki mangles and mutates classical music history with two turntables and a mixer

Art

How Does It Feel To Feel? The Ardent Imagery Of Marlene Dumas

A comprehensive retrospective show at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice

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Black Sky Thinking

Modern Nature: On Derek Jarman’s Queer Landscape Writing

As Derek Jarman's Modern Nature is broadcast as Radio 4's Book of the Week, adaptor and radio producer Simon Richardson hymns the influence of this pioneering and inspirational work of queer nature writing.

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I Believe In Growing Old With Grace: Oobah Butler On An Obsession With Spencer Krug

Pursuit Of Pop: Jo Bevan Interviewed

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Abronia
Map of Dawn

Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals
King Cobra

Hercules & Love Affair
In Amber

Stan van Dijk
Caustics

Avalanche Kaito
s/t

Mary Halvorson
Amaryllis & Belladonna

Osheyack
Intimate Publics

Sofie Birch
Holotropica

Kee Avil
Crease

LE SSERAFIM
Fearless

Yama Warashi
Crispy Moon

Shiva Feshareki
Turning World

These New Puritans
Crooked Wing

The Fall
Singles Live Vol.1: 1978–81

Water Damage
Instruments